Some good stuff in this column. Definitely worth a read. In a stew over inversions – The Washington Post: “The U.S. system, unlike those of most major nations, taxes the profits that domestic corporations earn overseas, even though these profits…

Ignore for a moment that the core problem is spending, this is a great column from Will. George Will: Taming the tax code beast – The Washington Post: Every complexity in the 4 million-word tax code was created at the…

Hmmm. This is not good. Definitely read this one. A little bipartisanship? Senators Really Don’t Want You to Know How They’re Reforming Taxes – Brian Resnick – The Atlantic: With the weight held by the special interests, this is dangerous work…

I see Dr. Sowell’s recent column is about the Apple corporate tax business. So Apple is already paying $16 million a day in taxes?!! It’s never enough. “We have truly entered the world of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ when the CEO of…

There’s certainly a lot of tax news the last couple of weeks. The latest is the dust-up over Apple not paying as much in corporate taxes as some people would like. Apple has been accused of “tax avoidance.” I distinctly…

The NYT applauds the political bullying by the IRS. No surprise there, it fits their world view. The I.R.S. Does Its Job – NYTimes.com: Taxpayers should be encouraged by complaints from Tea Party chapters applying for nonprofit tax status at…

I think they’re appropriate. “All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others.” — George Orwell Source: in “Animal Farm” Oh, yeah. “The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get…

This. George F. Will: The government puts a limit on free speech about taxes – The Washington Post: The government’s total price rule forbids the airlines from calling attention to the tax component of the price of a ticket by…